1、专业英语八级模拟试卷 796及答案与解析 SECTION A MINI-LECTURE Directions: In this section you sill hear a mini-lecture. You will hear the lecture ONCE ONLY. While listening, take notes on the important points. Your notes will not be marked, but you will need them to complete a gap-filling task after the mini-lecture.
2、 When the lecture is over, you will be given two minutes to check your notes, and another ten minutes to complete the gap-filling task on ANSWER SHEET ONE. Use the blank sheet for note-taking. 0 Intercultural Learning Many teachers may wonder “What am I actually doing?“ sometimes. It doesnt seem eno
3、ugh to teach grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation and communicative skills with unreal and meaningless content. I . Introduction gap between language teaching in class and in the real world 【 B1】 _of intercultural awareness:【 B1】 _ crucial to comprehend and communicate in the global village II. Defini
4、tion of intercultural learning A. The concept of culture including lifestyles,【 B2】 _, beliefs, history or experiences, etc.【 B2】 _ existing in one place or many places existing in a religion with followers from different【 B3】 _【 B3】 _ B. Interpretation of intercultural learning a process of getting
5、 better understanding of cultures around the world objective: to increase mutual【 B4】 _and understanding【 B4】 _ forms: not only a part of EFL, but applied in all fields of education III. Intercultural awareness the【 B5】 _ of language teaching rather than a “ fifth skill“ : to【 B5】 _ understand the r
6、elation between a second language/culture with the first one a(n)【 B6】 _made up of a collection of skills and attitudes:【 B6】 _ 1)observing, identifying and recognizing 2)comparing and contrasting 3)negotiating meaning 4)dealing with or tolerating ambiguity 5)effectively interpreting messages 6)limi
7、ting the possibility of misinterpretation 7)defending ones own point of view while acknowledging the legitimacy of others 8)accepting difference method: realizing the vital importance of these skills using【 B7】 _themes as materials in teaching【 B7】 _ IV. Teachers role 【 B8】 _:【 B8】 _ to influence st
8、udents in some way to raise more awareness of the world to interact better with the world mediator of cultural relativity with various【 B9】 _【 B9】 _ V. When should it be introduced? accessible to【 B10】 _【 B10】 _ 1 【 B1】 2 【 B2】 3 【 B3】 4 【 B4】 5 【 B5】 6 【 B6】 7 【 B7】 8 【 B8】 9 【 B9】 10 【 B10】 SECTIO
9、N B INTERVIEW Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow. Questions 1 to 5 are based on an interview. At the end of the interview you will be given 10 seconds to answer each of the following five questions. Now listen to
10、 the interview. 11 Which of the following statements is CORRECT about Shaheen? （ A） She was born in Palestine. （ B） She grew up in Gaza City. （ C） She lives in Toronto right now. （ D） She received a bachelors degree in marketing. 12 Americans still have the following image of Arab women EXCEPT （ A）
11、they receive little education. （ B） they have no rights. （ C） they all stay at home as housewives. （ D） they usually speak two languages. 13 What is Shaheens attitude about herself to be one of the more educated and more experienced women? （ A） Lucky and satisfied. （ B） Indifferent and unconcerned.
12、（ C） Neutral and impartial. （ D） Dissatisfied and ungratified. 14 Shaheen has been to the following areas in America EXCEPT （ A） Pennsylvania. （ B） New York. （ C） California. （ D） New Jersey. 15 Which of the following is INCORRECT about Shaheens future plans? （ A） She will stay in Chicago for three
13、months. （ B） Shell be working in green initiatives. （ C） Shell finish her graduation project at Wharton. （ D） Shell do some work for the Olympics 2016. SECTION C NEWS BROADCAST Directions: In this section you will hear everything ONCE ONLY. Listen carefully and then answer the questions that follow.
14、 At the end of each news item, you will be given 10 seconds to answer the questions. 16 The battle for Tripoli_. （ A） was primarily in and around the international airport （ B） injured and killed many medical workers （ C） destroyed a hospital in the Abu Salim area （ D） resulted in the rebels complet
15、e control of the city 17 How many miles did the police go before catching the girls? （ A） 14. （ B） 26. （ C） 46. （ D） 100. 18 What kind of charges will the police put against Potters daughter? （ A） Damaging public property. （ B） Running away to avoid arrest. （ C） Reckless driving without a license. （
16、 D） Endangering passengers life. 19 What caused the tension between Egypt and Israel? （ A） The death of Egyptians in an Israeli military action. （ B） The unnoticed Israeli military action along Egypts border. （ C） The attacks Gaza militants made inside Israel. （ D） The public statements Israeli Defe
17、nse Minister made. 20 What did the Egyptian protestors call for? （ A） Withdrawing Egypt ambassador from Israel. （ B） Closing Israel embassy down permanently. （ C） Breaking a previous agreement with Israel. （ D） Stopping buying natural gas from Israel. 20 Judging by the wildly cheering audience at th
18、e orgy of consumerism that was Oprah Winfreys “ Ultimate Favourite Things“ show, American women have lost none of their enthusiasm for the finest stuff money can buy.(The handful of men in the audience seemed to share the feeling.)The show, screened in two parts just before Thanksgiving, the traditi
19、onal start of the holiday shopping season, ended with each audience member going home with products ranging from a set of Oprah-branded Le Creuset pots to an iPad, some sparkling Ugg boots and a new car. Retailers must hope that the public will be as enthusiastic about such products when they have t
20、o pay for them as the audience was when getting them free. They are certainly competing harder than ever to lure shoppers into their stores. Many are opening before sunrise on Black Friday, as the day after Thanksgiving is known(supposedly because it is the point in the financial year when retailers
21、 edge into the black). Wal-Mart was due to open most of its stores at the stroke of midnight. Sears decided to open on Thanksgiving Day itself for the first time, though still holding back its best bargains for Black Friday. In the hope that this will be a merrier festive season than last year, reta
22、ilers have been hiring lots of temporary staff: in October those in areas other than the car trade added around 20,000 posts. David Resler of Nomura, a stockbroker, says Octobers hiring figures are usually a good predictor of how sales in the holiday season will turn out. In recent months sales have
23、 been picking up. Consumer spending rose in each of the five months to October, with even discretionary items like sports goods showing improved sales. However, sales of durable goods(washing machines and so forth)were unexpectedly weak in October, a sign of residual caution among households. Retail
24、ers are making more use of social-networking sites such as Facebook to promote deals and build communities of like-minded shoppers. Sears, for example, has been getting customers to share their shopping tales through a “Be the Santa you want to be“ competition. This has been the breakthrough year fo
25、r Groupon. which uses social networking to let consumers earn discounts by recruiting their friends(the more people who sign up for an offer, the bigger the discount). But the internet is not always a retailers best friend. A plethora of new shopping-information websites, such as leakedblackfridayde
26、als. com, is forcing prices down and making it harder for store chains to differentiate their offerings. Wal-Mart, the biggest retailer, is adding to the pressures on its rivals by offering to match any Black Friday deal they offer. Shares in Sears are still trading well below where they were last N
27、ovember. Overall, retailers shares have been unusually volatile in the past year or so as consumer confidence has fluctuated, refusing to form any sort of trend. How this holiday season turns out will certainly move the market as well as determine whether shareholders approve the $ 3 billion sale an
28、nounced on November 23rd of J.Crew, a clothing chain, to a group of private-equity firms. The vote will take place on January 15th; until then, J. Crew will continue to seek other buyers. Private-equity firms have become keen on retailers with strong brands because the recession has forced weaker on
29、es out of business, leaving more space for the survivors. Productivity in retailing has also improved, in part through the better use of technology. So there is the prospect of strong profit growth and when the recovery gets into full swing. Stores that cater to well-off women have perhaps the best
30、prospects this season. Such shoppers are “ready to declare the recession over“, says Michael Silverstein, the author of “Women Want More“, a book charting their growing spending-power. “They have worn through their unused inventory of apparel, fashion accessories and jewellery and are actively expan
31、ding their purchases,“ he says, predicting that retailers who serve them could enjoy a sales boost of as much as 10% compared with last years holiday season. Things may be very different for the bottom 40% of households, still committed to recession inspired prudence. Mr. Silverstein says that in ma
32、ny such families the woman has hung on to her job but is now the sole breadwinner. Such households “are going to hunt for bargains, recognise the holiday, but continue their frugal ways,“ he predicts. Retailers will be hoping that Oprah and all her glitzy goodies will tempt them to change their mind
33、s. But for a large proportion of Americans, window-shopping may be the nearest they get to such desirable items. 21 According to the passage, “ Ultimate Favourite Things“ show （ A） is a program for women. （ B） reflects economical crisis. （ C） sends out gifts to audience. （ D） is to celebrate Thanksg
34、iving. 22 What do we learn from the second and the third paragraphs? （ A） Retailers are hiring about 20,000 staff in all this October. （ B） Sears offers the greatest deals on Thanksgiving only. （ C） Thanksgiving is a crucial chance to make money. （ D） Retailers open longer to meet customers needs. 2
35、3 Internet isnt always a retailers best friend mainly because （ A） stores have to match online shops low prices. （ B） Internets better bargains lead stores to harder time. （ C） Wal-Mart offers the same deal with online shops. （ D） Internet helps attract customers in various ways. 24 Michael Silverst
36、ein implies the following facts EXCEPT that （ A） rich women will buy more despite of economic recession. （ B） retailers will suffer from the same poor sales as last year. （ C） a woman in difficulty will still celebrate holidays by buying. （ D） most Americans prefer to look rather than actually buy.
37、25 What is the main idea of this passage? （ A） Economic recession and American economy. （ B） Retailers tricks to encourage purchasing. （ C） Luxurious products favored by rich women. （ D） Holiday: retailors busy, not all shoppers happy. 25 Bianca Sforza attracted few stares when introduced to the art
38、 world on January 30, 1998. She was just a pretty face in a frame to the crowd at a Christies auction in New York City. Nobody knew her name at the time, or the name of the artist who had made the portrait. The catalog listed the work a colored chalk-and-ink drawing on vellum as early 19th century a
39、nd German, with borrowed Renaissance styling. A New York dealer, Kate Ganz, purchased the picture for $21,850. The price hadnt budged almost ten years later when a Canadian collector, Peter Silverman, saw Biancas profile in Ganzs gallery and promptly bought it. The drawing might actually date from t
40、he Renaissance, he thought. Ganz herself had mentioned Leonardo da Vinci, that magical name, as an influence on the artist. Silverman came to wonder, “What if this is the work of the great Leonardo himself?“ That someone could walk into a gallery and buy a drawing that turns out to be a previously u
41、nknown Leonardo masterpiece, worth perhaps $ 100 million, seems pure urban myth. Discovery of a Leonardo is truly rare. At the time of Silvermans purchase, it had been more than 75 years since the last authentication of one of the masters paintings. There was no record that the creator of the “Mona
42、Lisa“ ever made a major work on vellum, no known copies, no preparatory drawings. If this image was an authentic Leonardo, where had it been hiding for 500 years? Silverman emailed a digital image of Bianca to Martin Kemp. Emeritus professor of art history at Oxford University and a renowned Leonard
43、o scholar, Kemp regularly receives images, sometimes two a week, from people he calls “Leonardo loonies,“ convinced they have discovered a New York. “My reflex is to say, No!“ Kemp told me. But the “uncanny vitality“ in the young womans face made him want a closer look. He flew to Zurich, where Silv
44、erman kept the drawing in a vault. “When I saw it,“ Kemp said, “I experienced a kind of frisson, a feeling that this is not normal.“ That initial shiver of excitement compelled Kemp to embark on his own investigation. He was aided by high-resolution multispectral scans by Pascal Cotte of Lumiere Tec
45、hnology in Paris, allowing Kemp to study the drawings layers, from first strokes to later restorations. The more Kemp looked with his connoisseurs eye, the more he saw what he considered evidence of Leonardos hand how the hair bunched beneath the strings holding it in place, the beautiful modulation
46、 of colors, the precise lines. The expression conveyed Leonardos maxim that a portrait should reveal “motion of the mind.“ Kemp also needed proof that the portrait had been made during Leonardos lifetime(1452 1519)and that its historical particulars fit the artists biography. The vellum, probably ca
47、lfskin, had been carbon-dated, its origin placed somewhere between 1440 and 1650. Costume research revealed that the sitter belonged specifically to the Milanese court of the 1490s, with its fashion for elaborately bound hair. Leonardo lived in Milan during this time, accepting commissions for court
48、 portraits. Kemps detective work led him to a name, Bianca Sforza. An illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Milan, she was married in 1496 to Galeazzo Sanseverino, commander of the Milanese troops and a patron of Leonardos. Bianca was 13 or 14 at the time of the portrait. Tragically, she died a few m
49、onths later, likely from an ectopic pregnancy. Kemp named the drawing “La Bella Principessa,“ the beautiful princess. In 2010 Kemp and Cotte published their findings in a book. Several prominent Leonardo scholars agreed, others were skeptical. Carmen Bambach was quoted as saying that the portrait simply “does not look like a Leonardo.“ Doubt seemed to collect around the portraits sudden, al
